The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-19
Local and state Notes.

Dec. L the c.. I. St. L. & G. road will
adopt the per diem system for car charges.
Several brakemen the j., NJ & l. road have
recently been promoted to the position of freight
conductors.
It is stated that the interstate-commerce act
has reduced the rates on freight carried over
Illinois roads % per cent
Robert Curtis, general master mechanic of
the c.. St. L. & P. shops, headquarters at CO.
lumbus. O., is dangerously ILL
The Washin gton mines, on the EvansviI'> &
Indianapolis road, have again opened for Sisi-
ness, and the operator is loading fifteen cars per
day.
Ticket-scalpers have practically abandoned
the field California business, being unable to
sell as low of the ticket agents of
the outside Offices.
q The pay-rolls of the PENNSYLVANIA com pany
shc~ that over two thousand men are paid at
Fort W ayne, Ind. This includes men in the P,
Fl. W. & c. shops.
F. A. Merrill, superintendent of the Chicago
division of the Wisconsin Central road, retires
Dec. 1, and will De succeeded by w. A. Gardner,
of the Chicago d Northwestern road.
District PASSENGER Agent Janowtz of the
Northern Pacific. has on exhibition at his Office
South Illinois street, samples of the various
products OF Washington. Oregon and Dakota.
The contract for doing the difficult grading
work on the Cairo Short line has been let This
work is through the mountain district from the
Cairo, Vincennes Sc Chicago road to Bay Bottom,
Ill.
To-day a large force of men will arrive here
from Pittsburg to erect the sheds of the
Union railway station, and the work is now to be
pushed, most of the material now being on the
ground
The report of the accountant of the c.. Il.
& d. road shows that within the last twelve
months the road has handled the of 42S
foreign roads and fast-freght lines. which beats
the Vandalias record.
F. n. Finney has handed in his resignat ion
managing directors Of the Wisconsin Central
road, the resignation to take effect Jan. /, 1888
He says that be will then take years rest be-
fore engaging in any business pu rSuit
The general officers of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive FIremen whose headquarters are
Terre Haute. will on tne first of month
move into their elegant and eommoGolouS new
rooms in VIM. r. Mckeen's new block
The Railway Passenger and Freight Conduct
ors' Mutual Aid and Benefit Association is hold
ing its thirteenth annual convention in Chicago.
Sunday the members leave for excursion to
Mexico over the Chicago s. Alton and the A, T.
81 S. f. roads.
Within the last week the Indianapolis & St
Louis road has entered the field a competitor
for the livestock traffic between Kansas City
and 1ndans polis. Since Monday morning they
have brought 10 this market from Kansas City
143 car loads OF hogs.
Freight agents at this point yesterday
notified by the Louisville 81 Nashville freight
department. t&t this road could not, until fur
Their notice, receive freights consigned TO points
below Memphis on the Mississippi river, so low
the stage of water.
Inquiry among the manufacturers, more
peciay Of furniture, lounges and desks. shows
that without exception they are satisfied with
the REVEALING rates. and majority of the man
ufacturers prefer that the acknowledgements
law should not be tamperedSgith
The rail rate from indianapolis to Boston on
grain and -four is % cents per 100 pounds, export
business. 1t is alleged, however. that one of the
lines yesterday took lot of export business at
204 cents, and there is good deal of stir
the matter il eastbound freight circles.
Sunday next the c.. II. 6 D. shortens the
ning time of its through night express trains
between Cincinnati and Indianapolis three
haurS d.
ent Nelson says that on the taking effect of the
spring timetable they propose to make the run
between the two cities named IN three hours.
The earnings of the Indianapolis 6 ST. Louis
road for the first week of November were $780,
473. Increase over earnings corresponding week
1856 Sl5. $50 30 per cent on the main line.
In this statements included the earnings of the
St L., A & T. Fl. branch as well as the earn
lnes of the main line from indianapolis to East
ht. Louis.
John Christian the veteran engineer, recently
discharged the j., NJ 81 /. road. has been put
Rt work in the shops of the Pennsylvania com
pany at this point Superintendent Black says
tnat while he regretted that IL was necessary to
discharge Mr.. Christian, he being very COM
petent engineer. good discipline made such
action necessary.
Rumor bad it that some of the Ifast-freieht
nnes are shading rates west-bound freights
from trunk-iine points. Careful inquiry failed.
however, to confirm such report. AT least the
wholesale men, who II is said favored,
have not been apprise of the fact either by word
Or a reduction in rates on any OF the freights
they are receiving from the East.
II is quite evident that there is trouble brew
ing over the new arrangement regarding export
rates Officials of Erie the Lackawanna
and the Grand Trunk roads are not taking
Kindly 10 the position they are placed in, and
have had conference which will likely result in
heir repudiating the fixed export rates,
and the returning TO the old system
The Miami County Sentinel says: "A few
aays ago some ten or fifteen carloads of logs
were hauled to Courier. the first station on the
L. K. g. w. north of Peru. and about twenty
Or thirty more cars were ready for hauling The
logs were TO be shipped TO North Manchester on
the Eel River. The Lake Erie the road which,
according TO the indianapolis journal. is deter